By and by, powerful as my comrade was, his great exertions began to tell on him, and he was anxious that I should change places with him till he could rest a little.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

“Tell your wife that I love her as before, and that if she cannot pardon me my position, then my wish for her is that she may never pardon it.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

[2] Southern Argentina, although it is made up of five National Territories, is still called Patagonia, in much the same way that a certain group of Eastern States is called New England still.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

That, in such circumstances, Paris was in no mild humour can be conjectured.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

As soon as we got on the road leading to the city the troops serving the gun on the parapet retreated, and those on the house-tops near by followed; our men went after them in such close pursuit—the troops we had left under the arches joining—that a second line across the road, about half-way between the first and the garita, was carried.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

The only answer that can be given is, that as all these exterior provisions are found to be inadequate, the defect must be supplied, by so contriving the interior structure of the government as that its several constituent parts may, by their mutual relations, be the means of keeping each other in their proper places.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

On this interesting subject, consult Prideaux's History of Tithes, and Fra Paolo delle Materie Beneficiarie; two writers of a very different character.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The invisible space character prevents this.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

Who, not seldom, Love defeats, And reigns within his choicest seats, [Pg 628] All this I soon could prove; but now That which I wish to tell is how A Shepherd by a King was sent for, And what this royal deed was meant for.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

I thought I saw Cousin Park Garnett in one, with her cross, stupid, old pug dog on the seat by her, but we were just then engaged in placing ourselves liable to arrest by breaking the speed law, so I could not be quite sure.
— from Vacation with the Tucker Twins by Nell Speed

Yet God have mercy on him when she awakes from her dream, for that time is surely coming, perhaps is here already; and the girl is on the square.
— from Beth Norvell: A Romance of the West by Randall Parrish

Perhaps a little ashamed to state the true cause of their anger, they have laid it all to the score of Home Rule, and declare that if Spain cannot protect them they would rather submit to American government than be ruled by Cubans.
— from The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 59, December 23, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls by Various

It is evident that Rickerby is perfectly right, and that there is some cunning plot afoot to rob this Selwyn.
— from Hard Pressed by Fred M. (Fred Merrick) White

There were few people in sight; a half dozen darkies lounged around the station, inside which the telegraph operator clicked away at his transmitter industriously, some children played in the street further up, but no one else was to be seen.
— from Talbot's Angles by Amy Ella Blanchard

Marie-Anne caught eagerly at the idea so cleverly presented by Martial.
— from The Honor of the Name by Emile Gaboriau

We cannot omit remarking, while we are on the subject of guide-books, that it would be a work of great service to Catholic tourists, if some competent person would prepare a guide-book for their use, with reference to all the places and objects specially interesting to them as connected with their religion and its history.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 07, April 1868 to September, 1868 by Various

"I don't see anything here that I should care [Pg 13] to live in continuously.
— from Mrs. Radigan: Her Biography, with that of Miss Pearl Veal, and the Memoirs of J. Madison Mudison by Nelson Lloyd

That in some cases physical defects do cause those who suffer from them to make war on society, is undoubtedly the case; but it is very far indeed from being the rule.
— from The Criminal & the Community by James Devon

Every voter substantially understood the several phases of the great slavery issue, its abstract morality, its economic influence on society, the intrigue of the Administration and the Senate to make Kansas a slave-State, the judicial status of slavery as expounded in the Dred Scott decision, the validity and the effect of the fugitive-slave law, the question of the balance of political power as involved in the choice between slavery extension and slavery restriction—and, reaching beyond even this, the issue so clearly presented by Lincoln whether the States ultimately should become all slave or all free.
— from Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02 by John G. (John George) Nicolay